Gillian Branstetter
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If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren't as biological or innate as you think they are
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1. Who is "they"
2. What did "they" take that you had previously owned
3. Who is "us"
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This becomes easier to accept if you believe that women are, in fact, people
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I wonder why queer teenagers would need to protect their privacy
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Utah's Republican Governor Spencer Cox, as he vetoes a ban on trans athletes passed by the state legislature, notes 75,000 high school athletes and only four are transgender. "Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few."
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Seems notable the most famous trans person in the country was targeted in a transphobic attack and there's just *nothing* on it in the news at all
Laverne Cox reports on Instagram Live she and a friend were targeted in a transphobic attack in LA's Griffith Park earlier tonight. The assailant demanded to know if Laverne was "a guy or a girl" before assaulting her friend.
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The precedent being set, that you're only a "real" survivor of abuse if you're 100% without sin, is functionally how the criminal justice and social work system treats abuse survivors every day
Angelina Jolie Is Already Getting the Amber Heard Treatment After Accusing Brad Pitt of Abuse
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Not sure how anyone isn't noticing the trend here
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In 2018, the cis girl on the left came in 8th in a HS track event. The trans girl on the right came in 1st.
The cis girl went on to earn 5 state titles, qualify for nationals 4 times, and now runs D1.
The trans girl was pushed out of sports altogether.
Guess who's suing who?
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We're two months away from millions of people losing the right to abortion and two years out from an attempted coup while a nationwide reactionary movement bans books and calls queer people a threat to children so yeah no I don't think we've moved too far left
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Noticing a trend in the kind of women they think they're saving
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Note those are items not covered by SNAP
They can delete it but screenshots are forever. This is what the police do.
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If you're waiting for the police to protect drag queens from violence I have some bad news for you and it's about the entire history of drag queens
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If my ideology had put me on the opposing side of Sesame Street and the Care Bears I might begin to wonder if it was I who was making the mistake
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Hearing the first gay presidential candidate condemn the "revolutionary politics of the 1960s" is uhhhhhhh something
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The biggest red flag to me about crypto is most sex workers wanted nothing to do with it. I would trust a single sex worker on digital finance and security more than a conference hall of VCs and tech bros
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It would be great if news coverage would likewise note the people not named who were nonetheless exposed--the stage crew at the debate, the wait staff at the fundraiser. Many powerful people chose to be reckless around many powerless people who had no choice.
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You are 14 times more likely to die during birth than during an abortion and the leading cause of death during pregnancy is murder. Abortion bans actually erase women. Not symbolically, not linguistically--they remove women from the planet.
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"Gender is innate and biological but also this cookie is a boy"
A Gingerbread PERSON. What is happening to our country?
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Something this article notes but the tweet does not: All of those losses are among Black and Latina women. White women, like white men, gained jobs in December.
US employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, according to the latest jobs report. Women accounted for all the losses, losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000.
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Wild how the gender binary is an innate and biological fact of nature but also collapses entirely if we don't enforce it through law
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Imagine you're in your tenth year of marriage and your husband casually tells a podcast he's never seen you as a person
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Tchaikovsky was a homosexual and Santa's not real. Hope that helps.
“I think the majority of people… they can acknowledge that Gay Nutcracker and Black Disabled Santa has gone way too far”
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As we watch an ascendant fascist theocracy queer people might be tempted by the urge to sanitize how we present ourselves and I'm here to tell you the actual best strategy is to be as mindblowingly gay as you possibly can
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"Grandma what was life like during the pandemic"
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Well we wouldn't want activists influencing medicine
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Congratulations on coming out and also on being the most vindicated cultural figure of the 00s
“Leave Britney Alone” star Cara Crocker announces that she’s transitioning. We support her!
#FreeBritney
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28 women held at an Indiana jail are suing after guards gave the keys to their cells to incarcerated men in exchange for a $1000 bribe, allowing the men to rape and assault the women.
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Elliot Page experiencing dysphoria while promoting Juno vs. Amanda Bynes experiencing dysphoria while promoting She's The Man
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It's wild to me that just about every trans person I know is planning the next few years of their lives around the potential criminalization of their existence and the liberal position on trans rights is "haven't we done enough"
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Using a billionaire's transgender daughter to dunk on the billionaire is unlikely to hurt the billionaire but is very likely to hurt the transgender daughter
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Still waiting for Heritage to explain how I'm too strong to play women's sports but too weak to join the military
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Marsha P. Johnson was deeply despised, silenced, and erased by a "gay movement" that saw her as extreme and damaging to their quest for mainstream acceptance. Those same organizations (and some of those same people) will now celebrate her birthday with a fundraising email.
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Cis queers telling transgender people they'll come for LGBTQ rights next
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Hannah Gadsby after Netflix's CEO cited her stand-up special as positive queer representation on the platform
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Senator Berg lost her transgender son Henry to suicide and now must watch as her Republican colleagues ignore her loss while ensuring even more parents will be forced to mourn their children.
Sen. Berg, who lost her transgender son Henry to suicide earlier this year, is still crying at her seat after the SB 150 vote.
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Rand Paul asking Dr. Levine, the first transgender person to seek Senate confirmation, whether she supports "genital mutilation" of young kids. What a shameless human.
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Need cis people to realize the guy questioning the scientific judgement of children's hospitals for working with trans kids and the guy who spent last week arguing mermaids are scientifically white are the same guy
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It is abhorrent that this ran in a major newspaper without a single mention of the fact the school district in question was shut down for the remainder of the school year by anti-trans terrorists. A man was federally charged with threatening to kill one of the faculty.
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The notion of regretting a gender transition sticks with cis people so hard because they're terrified of the body horror of being left with permanent physical changes--or, as most trans people know it, dysphoria
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Rep. Lamborn, who represents Colorado Springs, once tried to defund PBS because of a gay wedding plot on the children's TV show Arthur
I am saddened to hear of the senseless loss of life in the shooting last night. Law enforcement and first responders are to be commended for their rapid response.
All people should pray for the victims and their families.
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The history of the last fifty years of economics is repeatedly discovering that what poor people need is money and the best way to get it to them is to give it to them
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Femininity is perceived as a public good and trans people of any gender are punished if they fail to adequately provide it
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Can anyone explain to me why it's a bad thing if autism and trans identities are correlated
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Trans people don't need anyone's permission to exist. Not their spouse, not their parents, not their doctor, not their government. We are who we are, no apologies.
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I wish we lived in the world The New York Times describes, where being trans is super easy and even cool and health care just falls from the sky. But we live in this one, where we face twice as much poverty, four times as much violence, and most of us who need care can't get it.
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Claiming trans women have a biological advantage at Jeopardy is a solid tell of how these people think of cis women
A trans woman won a bunch of Jeopardy episodes & now bigots are claiming Jeopardy prizes are somehow being taken away from cis women & want separate categories of competition for trans people? Are they under the impression that Jeopardy is a gender-segregated show?
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Notable detail of the Gilded Age: In the US, it was also the period most state laws banning abortion and cross-dressing were passed. Gross inequality and a fear of new immigrants tend to be followed by the tightening of gender norms in an effort to boost fertility.
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The right's plan to make detransition seem far more common than it is sure does seem defeated by their inability to find more than one person who's detransitioned
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20 GOP-led states are suing the USDA over a rule from the agency that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ students in free school lunch programs. The AGs argue schools have the right to deny queer and trans kids lunch money.
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Just learning Kelly Loving, the transgender woman killed in the Club Q shooting, put herself between the gunman and another patron, likely saving their life. She was celebrating her birthday the night of the shooting.
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"I'm just concerned for female athletes" you write while another children's hospital is closed by bomb threats. "I just would like to see more data on bone density" you say, while Texas builds a secret registry of all its trans residents.
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Hmm maybe something about a manufactured and explicitly-eliminationist campaign scapegoating less than 2% of the population--accusing them of controlling the media and corporations while targeting children--resonates with the Jewish people.
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POV: You're the mother of an 11-year-old trans kid in Texas. One of your child's classmates caught COVID and now your kid has a fever of 102 and a hacking cough. Do you take them to the ER, knowing the nurses may report you as a child abuser?
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"I don't understand what they are going through or why they feel the way that they do. But I want them to live."
It says so much that such a basic expression of empathy and humanity is too high a bar for many conservative politicians to meet.
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A teacher in Texas reported one of her own students' families to child welfare services after stalking their Instagram page and identifying them as transgender. Luckily the family had already left Texas for Colorado after Governor Abbott ordered the state to persecute them.
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Everyone pointing to his smile or the effect of T but this is what stands out to me. The recognition of a future you never thought was possible.
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Kids don't turn queer because a teacher told them queer people exist. They turn queer because their older sister's best friend gave them Ani DiFranco's first two albums on cassette. Everyone knows this.
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Pat Robertson--who cheered the spread of AIDS as "God weeding his garden," blamed 9/11 on feminists and the ACLU, blamed Hurricane Katrina on abortion, and equated same-sex marriage with pedophilia--has died. Happy Pride Month🌈
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Right-wing media has been obsessed with a story from VT where a girls' volleyball team was banned from their locker room after an undetailed "incident" involving a trans girl.
Turns out they were bullying the trans girl and school faculty heard the whole thing.
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Republican Senators are blocking funding for school lunch programs because the USDA won't let schools refuse lunch money to transgender students
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There are more laws banning transgender girls from playing K-12 sports than there are transgender girls playing K-12 sports
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So much transphobia boils down to the idea that the most debased and perverse thing a man could ever want to be is a woman
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Agents from Texas' child welfare agency told a federal court Gov. Greg Abbott's order to investigate trans kids has brought the agency to "the brink of collapse" after 2,000 agents resigned in the past year alone rather than "break up loving families."
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District Attorneys in five of the largest Texas counties say they will refuse to comply with Abbott's order to prosecute the parents of trans kids.
"We want to ensure our residents with transgender children that they are safe to continue seeking the care their children need."
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The Pride Center near Gainesville, FL was severely vandalized yesterday, with rocks thrown through their windows and anti-LGBTQ messages left behind. The far-right has become particularly active in Florida since the election of Ron DeSantis and the start of his war on trans kids.
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Those banning gender-affirming care are not afraid that people will transition and regret it; they're afraid people will love it. Their entire worldview is threatened by the joy and liberty that can come from rejecting the gender roles you've been arbitrarily assigned.
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WE WON!!! The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the ADF's challenge to Connecticut's trans-inclusive athletics policy. The court found the ADF's plaintiffs lacked any standing to challenge the inclusion of trans students.
In 2018, the cis girl on the left came in 8th in a HS track event. The trans girl on the right came in 1st.
The cis girl went on to earn 5 state titles, qualify for nationals 4 times, and now runs D1.
The trans girl was pushed out of sports altogether.
Guess who's suing who?
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So you're getting an abortion in the era of surveillance capitalism
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It's cool how trans people fought for decades for the medical establishment to stop literally torturing us and the moment they did cis people said "now wait just a goddamn minute"
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If you're a cis person reading that NYT puberty blockers story ask yourself how many tail-end risks exist with different forms of birth control and whether they justify criminalizing it like people are trying to do with puberty blockers
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Not that I expect her to care but 1 in 3 trans people have been homeless in their lifetime. 1 in 8 experienced homelessness in the last year; 75% of them who stayed in shelters were harassed because they are trans.
Caitlyn Jenner to Hannity: "My friends are leaving California. My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, where are you going? And he says, 'I'm moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can't take it anymore. I can't walk down the streets and see the homeless'"
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Find it telling her interactions with the media thus far on this issue led her to believe she could make wildly false claims without being asked to provide any evidence for them. Anti-trans talking points are so paper thin because they're used to being coddled by reporters.
Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on
@AppleTVPlus
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In other words, these two moms provided $20,000 in child care without getting paid
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Two chunks of concrete were thrown through the front door of the Vermont Pride Center in Burlington last night. The Center received threats in recent weeks after Fox News host Laura Ingraham accused local schools of sexually grooming children.
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State court in Texas issues a statewide injunction against Governor Abbott's order, prohibiting DFPS from investigating families who access gender-affirming care on that basis. We also learned today state officials were instructed to avoid keeping records of such investigations.
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A group of Louisiana public school students were told they were going to a career fair, but were instead taken to a church service where girls were told to forgive rapists and reject transgender identities and boys competed in push-up contests for money.
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If more people understood the GOP position on trans rights as "the government should decide your gender for you" I think they'd see trans people's point
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A new law in Tennessee requires this sign to be hung in businesses that let trans people use their restrooms and it feels like it was designed specifically for the experience of seeing it in a mournful Smithsonian exhibit
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In 2019, a pregnant transgender man arrived in an ER with severe abdominal pain. He informed the hospital he was trans and pregnant, but staff ignored him, assuming it was a heart condition. He later delivered a stillborn baby.
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